Marc Rabideau, a longtime San Francisco resident, went to the same Walgreens at the corner of 17th Avenue and Geary Boulevard for 35 years. It was a comfortable, familiar place where the pharmacists knew his name, his prescription and his doctor. But then in February, the pharmacy’s abrupt closure changed his entire routine.
Now, Rabideau has to take multiple buses to get to his nearest Walgreens on Point Lobos and 42nd avenues, which has gotten increasingly busier as it picks up the slack from shuttered businesses.
“It’s a hassle,” Rabideau told SFGATE. “Some neighbors don’t have cars, and it means it’s a bus trip there and back. [They have to] plan their day around it.”…